Ok, so I wake up today and I try to login to MSN (I'm using 7.5 and damned if i'm ever updating to that live s***) and it wont let me get past sign in without being forced to updating. Anyone else in the same boat and know how to get around this?

The day i most feared has finally come i think :(((

What the hell is wrong with Live Messenger?

have you tried to accept an authorisation request? the only way i could do that was by setting up a live profile page and agreeing to a tonne of wank.

holly s***burgers talk about cross promotion. wtf should i need a live profile page to allow someone to IM me?

Pidgin

set up a live page? wtf! god i hope i dont have to do that...

yeah i just had to reboot and it's giving me this s*** :(

aMSN

ICQ for the win!

man up, it's just a new version
learn to live with it like you did with XP over 98, eventually

last edited by teq at 12:39:43 13/Sep/07

I always have, and always will use version 4.7

Are you getting login issues casa?

I <3 MSN Live

+1 pidgin

f***ing being forced onto this live s***.

is windows messenger the same thing as msn? coz i use windows messenger 4.7 n it's never tried to update itself. i only use it coz the noobs in our singapore office seem to like it to 'communicate'. irc is still the l0re. ;]

It's a f***ing chat program, just update it and move on with life.

hey Midda, when microsoft require u to sit un a usb cock to use their service you'll happily do that too right, after-all iit's just a f***ing chat program, what's a usb cock between friends and dickward corporations, right?

there is no friendly or nice reasons to force people to signup for live & the only reason it is popular is microsft's domination of the desktop market, not because it is a superior product - it simply isn't.

i have tried pidgin. what a buggy piece of s***. live works flawlessly. gawd you c***s whinge.

CSIRAC: no.

No ads, no updates, no faggy popups, no noises... just chat

I've been using msn 7.5 because live _REFUSES_ to connect, no matter what. Doesn't matter that it can actually connect through the proxies, it refuses to.

Complete anus software.

I installed aMSN and it works, once proxy info is entered.

live = +1 bs software of bs

Just got home from work and 7.5 is still going fine and logging in for me.

WTF,

f***ing hell.

whats your build protius. mine says (7.5.0311), its in the help->about place

lol apparently i'm using windows live messenger 8.1... i haven't had to update it in f***ing months though.

Mines 7.5.0324.

oh what! its working now

crisis over.

6.2 for the win
i can hook you up if you want

it is? f*** I had to upgrade.

Hardly call it an upgrade though. add riddled buggy s***.

Pidgin

+1 to that

I would like to cast my vote for 4.7.

I used to be an aMSN whore but even that got bloaty and slow, so now I'm going to be a Miranda whore instead. It's small, featureless (but has plugins if you like bloat) and works over multiple protocols.

Someone linked a program a while back that pretty much allowed you to strip msn down as much or as little as u wanted. (ads, buttons, anything u can think of it can remove)

msn in its basic form is awesome, looks nice + works...then it kind of goes to s*** with all those tabs and worthless buttons that you use once a never.

so what you end up having is .... msn 4.7 with a little bit of style!

you can log into msn via trillian

/bam

A-Patch is the tool to customise MSN (i.e. strip all the crap out).

So msn started f***ing out on me again so i did a bit more googling

and found this: http://forum.mess.be/lofiversion/index.php/t22557.html

seems its just a simple version check because msn had some security problem with webcams.

yet to try this since im capped, but will give it ago come midnight

Omg, i thought i was the only one with this problem. Was so weird waking up and it not working like that. All fixed now but that was such a pain in the butt

instead of crying, for any longer than i did i upgraded to the latest msn

it's not really that bad..